So this is my first brew ever...after reading about opinions of a secondary and different ideas and methods I decided to just follow the instructions. Which was to transfer to secondary after 5-7 days when bubbling was almost done. So 7 days later I had 3 bubbles a minute so I sanitized and...
So it's been on my mind....after my lid blew.....that thick layer of muck that was on the bottom of my bucket lid that I washed down the drain is making me think (and I'm your basic idiot) that I may lose some hoppiness. Is still fermenting and the blow off smells amazing but did I lose to much...
So after a successful ipa brewing evening fermenting began roughly 10 hours later. At 70 degree I knew I had a serious ferment goin on. I cleaned the air lock sanitized and reinstalled 3 or 4 times . Losing air foaming all over and so on. Then came the lid popping lol! I eventually installed a...
